Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone. So I’ve been playing alot of PvP lately and it’s been fun but also extremly frustrating and gets be to the point where I don’t even want to play ever again lol. Basically what my issue is is that I have my build which I have found online and that I like alot and I practice in the mists by killing golems and the npc classes. But when I go into hot join PvP I literally NEVER stand a single chance. Whenever I get even close to another player I am instantly smashed into the floor. Be it a necromancer who condi’s the kitten out of my HP before I even get the chance to pop a condi removal skill or a stupid thief who backstabs me and then smashed me with the insane crit rate on most “meta” builds. Hell even rangers with greatsword roll the kitten out of me, I go up to them and start a swinging and am instantly crippled or immobilized, so I pop my immobilize removal and am instantly immobilized again! After which they begin to smash the kitten out of me because everyone seems to have massive DPS. Now one of the other huuuge issues I have is that I am NEVER supported at all. When I enter a hot join match the team comp is absolute kitten tier. 90% of the time over half the team on both sides is just mesmers and thieves which both roll me harder than any other class because quite frankly they are OP against new players who don’t know how to deal with perma stealth or 900 phantasms running circles around you (that newbie being me). My point is is that there is never team support. People are always off doing their own thing and when I am attacked it’s usually against more than one person and I am instantly killed. I know the solution to this is to start doing ranked matches but to my understanding ranked matches are for more skilled players who actually know what they are doing and hot join is for learning the ropes. But how do I learn the ropes if team comp is kitten tier 100% of the time and I am always smashed into the floor by pretty much every other player and class in the game? Please help me guys

Hotjoin is sadly a huge mess and I’m sorry it’s made the experience unpleasant. Have you tried joining solo arena? While it can be rough I find the atmosphere to be much better, in that you actually get people who try to play properly and support, and it’s not ideal for total beginners but I think it’s the better option. These days I mostly use hotjoin to just get used to the profession in PvP then hop into soloq until I’m comfortable enough to go teamq.

Hot join is your problem. There’s no coordination in those matches. It’s all just a dps fest to kill other players instead of take objectives and win the match. If you start playing solo or team q’s, you’ll see more of the good stuff in pvp.